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WordCamp Philippines 2008 Shout Out
I seem to have been living under a rock for not having known about the ongoing registration for WordCamp Philippines 2008, which started last week! Hope I can still make it in time for the 350 participants cut-off with this registration!
We all know I’m excited for this event, if my previous announcement wasn’t enough proof. It’s not until recently that I’ve turned into a Wordpress geek, so to speak, and I only have our accidental blog upgrade to thank for that. I’ve been mystified with Wordpress ever since, much more than when I was just a passive user. All I’ve done for the blog is Wordpress tweaking, themes and plugins tweaking specifically, and if there’s one thing this has taught me, it’s that the possibilities of Wordpress (and much about every open source projects out there) are endless. I’m just at the tip of the iceberg in my Wordpress journey, and with the WordCamp, I am hoping to enrich the puny little knowledge I have.
This blog is my precious little baby, if I might say, so what better way to nurture it but to learn THE ways on how to best take care of it, from the experts at that.
Wordpress creator Matt Mullenweg is coming to this momentous event, along with other blogging enthusiasts. Admission is free too. So should there be any reason for you to NOT attend this (unless you don’t live in the Philippines or you don’t reside near Manila)?? Time and inability to commute using the LRT will be the only acceptable excuses.
Organized by Mindanao Bloggers, WordCamp Philippines 2008 will be held on September 6, 2008 (Saturday) at the Augusto-Rosario Gonzalez Theater, 5th Floor Mutien Building of La Salle Tafat College of Saint Benilde in Taft Avenue, Manila.
We owe a big thanks to the following sponsors who made this event possible (and free! 
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- i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
- Free Online Flash Games
- Wazzup Manila Philippines
- Real Estate CRM
- Real Estate Website Designers
- Orange County Real Estate
- Auto Insurance Quotes
- Lane Systems Inc.
- RedMedia
Oh, and you need not be a blogger to attend this event (being enthusiastic for Wordpress is enough). There will just be a different registration track for you guys I think, details of which you’d have to check out the registration page for. So what else are you waiting for, register NOW!
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12 comments for “WordCamp Philippines 2008 Shout Out”
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Whoa, there was a registration? >_>
Thank you for registering for WordCamp Philippines!
You will be receiving your camper pass via email soon.
For updates, please visit http://philippines.wordcamp.org
and/or subscribe to its feeds: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wcphils
See you in WordCamp!
MiGs
on behalf of WordCamp Philippines Organizers
@Zeroblade: yeah, gogogo register!
@MiGs: wai, sweet! thanks!!
This sounds pretty cool. Are you definitely going? You gotta report back to the rest of us WP geeks about what happened!
@Kabitzin: I am definitely going, unless something really urgent happens. I’ll try my best to provide some coverage on this
I’ve been growing more and more disenchanted with wordpress of late and have been looking at other potential platforms.
A lot of the plugin designers (such as spam kama) have thrown in the towel as well. The updates are full of bloatware and the new design for the back end is still a pain in the rear to use and dosent work properly.
Shame they couldn’t follow the old adage: if it’s not broken don’t fix it!!
Interesting theme by the way
I didn’t know there was online registration either… I thought you register on the day of the event. >_<
@Tiamat’s Disciple: it’s sad to see how your Wordpress experience hasn’t exactly been enchanting. I guess I haven’t run into much Wordpress problems yet to lose faith in this blogging platform. Ever tried giving MovableType a shot?
@hazy: and that’s what I thought too. Glad I made it in before this whole registration ends
Oh! If you’re going to attend this I might be able to give you the TS shirt or something hehehe 
@ usagijen: Oooh, yeah. That’d be nice! Though, I’m still not exactly sure if I made the cut in the registration (I got the ‘thank you for registering’ mail, but my post hasn’t been verified yet). I’ll keep you posted. Thanks very much!
One of the problems with WP is that they tried to fix things that weren’t broken, and thus broke them. Plus a lot of the stuff they introduced dosent work, and the new builds are to fast.
WP is still the easiest platform to use though, and i hope that they realise flashy bells and whistle aren’t needed, and never were.
And yeah i looked at MT for a while, bt it’s so confusing to install lol. WP is click click done, so simple and easy!!
If MT ever got like that, then i think i’d look at them again
@hazy: no prob!
@Tiamat: the “build was too fast” was quite the dilemma with WP 2.3, and I’d like to think they learned from that. WP 2.5 was quite a change from that WP 2.3 horror, even WP 2.6.
I actually appreciate the efforts the WP team put into finding ways to improve this blogging platform. It’s not that they were fixing things that weren’t broken, they just wanted to improve those stuff more, a continuous improvement kind of mindset. It just so happens that other bugs are sure to occur after the whole testing process (and after the version has been released), which some users have to burden. With big changes come big bugs, and that’s exactly what happened in WP 2.3, with the major changes they did.
And to be fair to Wordpress, I do think that they’re working on the shortcomings you’ve mentioned. Bugs are just really inevitable, and I don’t want to put the blame too much on the Wordpress peeps. All of them want WP to become as bug-free as possible, but that’s an impossible feat to attain. Not all people will receive the new flashy features in Wordpress, that’s for sure, but with that, users have the option of sticking to the old version